Retry Storm
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Enforcement Core
Record: architecture:retry-storm
Severity: discouraged
Scope: resilience_recovery
Formed by: Allow many clients or workers to retry failed dependencies aggressively and synchronously, increasing pressure on the failing system.
Canonical: Ontology
A defect in which clients retry a failing dependency so aggressively that the retries prolong the failure.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Cache Poisoning by Design and before Timeout Omission.